Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Less panoramic than Black April, and therefore the less powerful, Author Peterkin's present volume is nevertheless a compelling story of human character in elemental contact with love, growth, death. Rich in pathos, it also sparkles with the amusing antics, and ridiculous superstitions of the primitive race.
Commercially Brazil is a backward Colossus. The torpor of her tropic citizens and the very plenitude of projects at their disposal has made the land somewhat notorious as el pasado manana-"the country of tomorrow." A succession of get-rich-quick booms-during which immense numbers of Brazilians have actually...
Alexandra's unpopularity, if such indeed it was, steadily increased. Her constant advice to the tsar was that he show himself man and ruler by adamantine autocracy. Her constant offering to the nation was daughter after daughter, and never an heir to the throne. Troubled by this her failing...
Philharmonic subscribers were for the most part amused by Gershwin's pictures. They spied him, sleek and smiling, sitting in a box, and clapped him cordially. Gershwin's critical public is still a house divided against itself. To the extremists on the one hand he is making the...
There is a further appeal to the intangible in the clause stating the desired "emphasis on character and fitness, and the promise of the greatest usefulness in the future as a result of a Harvard education." There is no attempt made at definition of this "usefulness." There are many who...